Re: Ho to set up a "Ghost" printer?

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From: William Allen
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 00:47

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Andy Mabbett wrote in message
> In article William Allen writes
>
> >Generic Text-Only printer
>
> Just the job; thank you.
>
> >In the Control Panel Printer applet
> >you can always set the output to a Disk File instead if you wish
> >then the "printer" will work, too.
>
> Can't see a way to do this; do you mean I do that globally, or as a one-
> of, each time I print something (which I do get a "print to file"
> option)?

In Control Panel, double-click Printers, right-click the
Generic Printer, choose Properties, choose Details Tab
in the tabbed dialogue box that opens, and use the
Pull-down list under "Print to the following port" to choose
"FILE (creates file on disk)." Syntax may vary slightly
between Windows versions.

When you print, a simple dialogue box should then always ask
you where/what file to write the print output to.

--
William Allen

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From: "William Allen" <mail@mayfly13.fsnet.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Ho to set up a "Ghost" printer?
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